piano tech. position

DMCKECH DMCKECH@ithaca.edu
Tue Sep 22 14:12 MDT 1998


List,

The time has arrived for me to make my best justification for adding 
another piano technician position here at Ithaca College. The addition to 
the music building will be complete next spring and there will be more 
pianos to service.

One of the primary arguments will be the number of pianos per technician. 
Also, these numbers compared to the number of piano majors. If anyone is 
willing to share their numbers with me I would be most grateful. Send 
privately if you wish. 

My numbers currently are 139 pianos, 3 harpsichords, 46 piano majors for 
one technician. There are about 12 additional pianos around the campus that 
I service occasionally. I expect an increase of about 23 pianos and one 
harpsichord. One must also keep in mind the number of secondary piano 
students and music ed. majors to this equation. I do not have those figures 
for IC at the moment.

I also plan to use the Guidelines for Effective Institutional Piano 
Maintenance published by the CAUT committee of PTG in my argument. Some of 
you may remember, in a post to Pianotech about two years ago, the database 
I set up that uses the workload formula from the Guidelines. (I also 
demonstrated it at the CAUT Forum in Dearborn.) The database is set up on 
FileMaker Pro. I would like to offer it to anyone responding to this post.

Regards,
Don McKechnie
dmckech@ithaca.edu



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